The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1887-04-27

Now or never Strain point and
subscribe to the Improvement Company
stock every dollar you possibly can.
Mrs. Abbie Williams and Mr.. David
Taylor, of Frenchtown, are both suffer.
ing from attacks of paralysis.
The Pennington skating rink build
ing which cost nearly $4,000, was sold
recently at public sale for $3.50.
The Sunday School Institute for the
First District Of Hunterdon county, viii
be held in the Annandale Churcl, on
Wednesday, May 4th.
Mr.. Search. for some years telegraph
operator at Milford, has been obliged by
sickness to abandon bis post. He is af-
hieted with disease Of the lungs.
-ReavilIe experienced slight Ere a
few days ago at their school house. Il
was discovered in time to avert more seri-
GUS results.
The application, of Thomas L. An
derson to keep hotel at Pattenburg,
which was laid over on the first day of
Court, was granted on Saturday.
The residence of Mr.. Holmes D Ely,
on Delaware avenue, has just undergone
needed repairs and coat or two of ex-
cellent paint, which makes this coy place
look new.
On Monday, April 18th, 1854, there
was great snow storm. 1t measured
two feet on the level, and railroad travel
was greatly interfered with. Drifts COW
cred the fences in some places.
bloomsbury ia soon to- be lighted by
street lamps. The sum of $3.50 is con-
sidered necessary to purchase sufficient
number. and the most Of the amount has
been subscribed.
There should be no difficulty in get
ting the stock subscribed that is neces-
sary in order to establish pottery here.
Everybody is interested-shop keepers,
storekeepers. workingmen and property
owners.
Mr.. John Robinson, of Bucks county,
Pa, has purchased of Charles A. Abbott,
his house and lot of ten acres Ia West
Amwell, about half-miis north of the
city limits, and will occupy it this season.
On Monday of last week, train of
SO cars loaded with steel rails, 10 tons to
the car, passed over the Belvidere Della
ware Railroad, on their way from the
Bethlehem Iron Works to Alexandria,
Va, where they will be used In the con-
struction of a new railroad. This is said
to be the largest single shipment from tie
Bethlehem Iron Works.
-Messrs. Young and Bougheite, who
recently purchased Of the Arsett estate
those frame houses on the York road,
just above the corner of York and Wash
ington streets, have made quite On i'm
provement in the property. by way of re-
pairs and painting, and by the building
of new yard fence, extending over the
York street creek bridge.
The ''early bird catches the worm,,'
and the live town the manufactures
Let the grumblers keep quiet for a few
days while people who want TO do some
thing for the benefit of this city get a
chance to do a little acting.
Our friend Joseph Fritts, of Glen
Gardner, called at our office a few days
ago, and showed as more than fiftY kinds
of foul seeds which he has gathered with
great care aud commemorate persever-
ance and carefully preserved In small bot
ties, each neatly labelled and all incased
In three handsome morocco pocketbooks
made expressly for the purpose. Fifty
four different kinds of destructive seeds
that grow with timothy and clover, all Of
which are calculated 10 destroy or choke
out grass. 1t would seem that Mr.. Fritts
has given the subject of botany some
study, and though his time is mostly &C.
cupied in the business of farming, he has
found time to devote to this subject to
acquire much information, exceedingly
valuable to cultivators of the soil, credlta-
BILE to himself, and would not be despised
by men of far greater professions than
himself. Dsuaocra g. Adpertissr.
Last week We gave short notice of
the death of Jacob Reed. A correspond